Coffee leacher



Nov. 6, 1928.

L. WERTHEIMER cFFEE LEACHER Filed Aug. lzv

. l 555,5 A45 Ina Patented Nov. 6, 1928.

UNITED STATES LEO WERTHEIMER, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

COFFEE lITEACIEIEIR..

Application led August 2, 1927. Serial No. 210,064.

The principal object of my invention has been toprovide a coffee leacher 'of glass, so constructed that maximum extraction of the coffee occurs before the same passes into the coffee urn.

Another object has been to provide a leacher which will form a support for thc coffee bag, while at the same time permitting free passage of thc coffee to the urn.

Furthermore, my device is provided. with a glass button arranged over the outlet opening, whereby the flow of coffee to the urn shall be retarded and the coffee bag prevented from closing up the opening.

Moreover, my device is provided with convenient means for attaching and detaching the coffee sack to the device.

The above objects and advantages have been accomplished by the device shown in the accompanying drawings, of which:

Fig. 1 shows a side elevation of the device in position within a coffee urn.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged, fragmentary plan view of the same.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged, side elevation of my device with a portion thereof broken away.

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary, perspective view showing the coffee bag in position in the leacher.

Referring to the drawings, 5 represents a coffee urn having an outer casing 6. The coffee container is represented at 7. 8 is the cover of the urn.

My leacher is made in the form of an open-mouthed receptacle having a sidev wall 10 and a` reduced peripheral portion 11 at its lower side, whereby a shoulder 12 is provided. As shown in Fig. 1, this shoulder is utilized to supportJ the device on the top of the coffee container or the flange 13 rarranged at the top kof the container. The leacher is also provided with a bottom 14 which preferably slopes from the side wall of the reduced peripheral portion 11 toward the center of the leacher where it is provided with an opening 15. On the upper surface of the bottom 14 is provided a plurality of upstanding ridges 16. The ridges are interspaced so as to provide annular spaces 17 between them. The ridges vary in length increasing from the center of the receptacle outwardly toward the wall of the portion 11, n whereby radially extending grooves or troughs 18 are formed. The ridges 19 arranged at the center of the device and adjacent the opening 15 preferably overlap a number of the radial grooves or troughs 18 whereby the flow of coffee down these troughs is somewhat retarded. A glass button 2O having a flange 21 and a downwardly extending portion 22 is arranged overthe central opening 15 and is supported by means of the flange 21 over the openings by contactwith the ridges 19. rThis button serves to somewhat restrict the opening 15 and thus retard the flow of the coffee from `the leacher whereby maximum extraction of the coffee may be had before it passes from the leacher into the urn.

About the upper beaded edge 23 of the leacher is preferably provided a metallic ring 24. This ring may be spun onto the bead 23 or otherwise secured in place thereto. The ring is provided with a plurality of fastening means 25, which may bein the form of the pins shown, or if desired, any form, such as, for instance, turn buttons, snap fasteners, or the like.` These fastening means provide supports for the leacher bag 26 as shown in Fig. 4. The bag is preferably provided with rings 27 which engage with the pins 25 or with any other fastening means which it is desired to employ.

1t will be seen that the leacher bag does not come into direct contact with the upper `surface of the bottom 14 of the leacher, but

is held in interspaced relation therewith by means of the ridges 16. The button 20 serves to keep the bag from clogging the opening 15. Obviously, the 'extracted coffee coming through the leacher bag will flow through the passageways 17 and 18 and finally through the opening 15 to the codec container below the leacher.

While 1 have shown passageways 17 and 18 formed between the ridges 16 to keep the coffee bag spaced away from the bottom 14 to permit the flowof the coffee toward the opening 15, it is Obvious that grooves may be formed in a smooth bottom and the same results accomplished. Moreover, the receptacle may be made rectangular, if desired.

These and other modifications of the details herein shown and described may be made without departing from the spirit of my invention, Vor the scope of the appended claims, and l do not, therefore, wish to be limited to the exact embodiment herein shown and described, the form shown being merely a preferred embodiment thereof.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

l; A coiee ll'eacher comprising a receptacle having'a side wall land a bott-om, the bottom being formed with an opening and spaced ridgesproviding a plurality Vof pasf sageways for the flow oi" the 'coffee to the opening, and a button having a flan-ge sup-l ported on the ridges adjacent the opening and having a tapered portion l, extending downwardly into said opening.

rcoffeer leacher comprising ay bowl-` shapedl receptacle havinga .side Wall and a bottom, the vbott-oni having' passagewaysY leading tov the centralV opening, and akplurality of annular passageways' conmeeting said radialpalssageways.

3. A `colee leac-her comprising recepta'cle havingua. side .wall anda bottonnthe bottom formed with a. centralfopening, and

a central open-. ing and' formed with a. plurality of radial rib surrounding the central al side wa-l'l and* a bottom, the

bottom being and a plurality of concentric annular ribs interrupted ytejerm a vplurality of radial passageways' 'intersecting the annular passageways between the ribs, and spaced ribs adjacent the central opening disposed in staggered rel-ation vto the radial passage- Ways.

5. A icoifee-leacher comprising areceptacleliaving a sidewall and "a betteln, the bottom having acentral opening and fori-ned with spaced annular ribs interrupted to form radial passageways passageW-ays between the ribs, anday central opening and' l-iaving passages therethrough staggered relative to said radial passageways, a button supported on said central rib: and extending loosely into said'- centralopening,

and a coffee ba@r su-)ported within lthe re`r ceptacle.

In testimony Whereofyl have hereunto signed my name.

- LEO WERTHEIMER.

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